Welfare Cost of Fluctuations: when Labor Market Search Interacts with Financial Frictions

We provide a quantitative assessment of welfare costs of fluctuations in a search model with financial frictions. The matching process in the labor market leads positive shocks to reduce unemployment less than negative shocks increase it. We show that the magnitude of this non-linearity is magnified...

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Main Author:	Iliopulos, Eleni Langot, François Sopraseuth, Thepthida
Format:	Publication
Language:	English
Place of publication:	01.06.2014
Data of publication:	2014-06
Subjects:	Economics and Finance Humanities and Social Sciences labor market search Welfare financial friction business cycle
Online Access:	available in Bonn?
Database:	Hyper Article en Ligne (HAL) Hyper Article en Ligne (HAL) (Open Access) Database information Databases - DBIS